Amherst, Nebraska - Buffalo County, Nebraska, and Its People : a Record of Settlement, Org

Buffalo County, Nebraska, and Its People : a Record of Settlement, Org

The Village of Amherst was incorporated in the year 1894. Its first village officers were O. G. Cobleigh, John Schnoor, Frank Outson, J. Y. Jones, Stanley Wysoki.

It is a thriving village, with two banks, a telephone exchange, two grain elevators, a feeding point for large numbers of sheep, and is a thriving commercial center having the patronage and support of a prosperous rural community.

Notwithstanding every reasonable effort has been made by written communications to obtain data and information as to the local history of the village, its churches, its fraternal organizations, its telephone company and other features of the history and activities of its people, the result has been disappointing.

School District No. 119 (Amherst) was organized in 1893, ^^ith Herman Kapedsky as director. In 1892 a church building had been erected and this building was purchased by the school district and used as a schoolhouse ; the cost of the building was approximately six hundred dollars. A high school was established in 1908. In 191 5 ten grades were taught and four teachers employed. The school district officers were : James L. Vest, F. M. Kenney, W. W. Johnson.

The Commercial State Bank of Amherst was organized June 10, 1908. The incorporators, Henry Menke, T. B. Garrison, Sr., H. H. Sinclair. The capital stock, $10,000. The first officers, T. B. Garrison, Sr., president, Henry Menke, cashier.

First National Bank of Amherst - In the year 191 5 its officers, A. U. Dann, president, A. T. Reynolds, cashier. Capital stock, $25,000; surplus, $5,000; deposits, $195,000.